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...leading candidate in Massachusetts' Eighth Congressional District race last night told Harvard activists that the University is hypocritical in requesting that the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) remove its prodivestment shanties...
...Harvard has played it a little fast and loose," Bachrach said of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence's letter asking that SASC clear Harvard Yard of its shanties for Commencement activities. He was planning to deliver a letter to President Derek C. Bok today, but declined to state its contents...
...When SASC five weeks ago erected the structures in protest of Harvard's owning stock in companies that do business in South Africa, the University stated that for the time being it had "no plans to do anything about the situation." But yesterday, Spence, who did not speak on behalf of the faculty, requested that SASC and the Conservative Club both remove the structures they had built...
...seems reasonable to expect those who wish to engage in polemic to get their facts straight. When the wager of a polemic is a journalist, such a responsibility seems all the more incumbent. A "Brass Tacks" piece by Steven Lichtman entitled "Our Shantytown," whose salient point was that SASC should tear the shanties down, seemed sadly misinformed. This misinformation was entirely avoidable. Lichtman might have joined the hundreds of people who have asked questions at the information desk of the Open University during the last five weeks, and saved himself the burden of writing a shoddy article...
Whether one feels strongly one way or the other about divestment in general, there can be no denying that the shanties have been an abysmal failure. Without the support of the students, the shanties and their builders will never convince the administration to divest. While SASC tries to think up new ways to generate that support, it should do everyone a favor by tearing the shanties down...